It's possible they just didn't hear it. It's also possible cops lied about announcing and just knocked. If you're going to barge in, makes sense to announce for your own safety if you feel like it's safe to knock first.
Cool, so no knock warrants are useless then, as their purpose is not to guarantee safety, but to arrest individuals before they can destroy evidence, or so I'm told.
My bad. It was the ex-boyfriend.
Very gracious of you. However, this statement alone is enough to show your hand. It doesn't matter if they're "druggies" or not, rights are still rights.
Yeah but like any job, you'll have incompetent and poor fit employees. Usually incompetence doesn't hurt anyone, and companies just cull the weakest links, but obviously the nature of being a cop is different than most jobs.
Incompetence used to hurt many more people, until workers rights became a thing(OSHA, etc..). LEO are under more scrutiny, and that's warranted.
Rosenbaum wasn't. Gaige wasn't. Sk8er boi wasn't. How many justice liberals thought they were doing the right thing? Lots. Yet Kyle wasn't an active shooter; he was going to the cops; and Rosenbaum found and attacked Kyle over "self-defense" despite Kyle having already escaped (assuming a controversy did occur e.g. point gun at Rosenbaum).
Lol, whatabouts? C'mon man, you know that comparing your average citizen (walker) to trained professionals(LEO's) is a joke.